diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index ef3a55bf86b6d3700c521e074954548c6f53223f..ff7d2995d252ee694cbd2e76f545092e53ac6936 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -881,8 +881,10 @@ struct inode *cifs_root_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		rc = cifs_get_inode_info(&inode, full_path, NULL, sb,
 						xid, NULL);
 
-	if (!inode)
-		return ERR_PTR(rc);
+	if (!inode) {
+		inode = ERR_PTR(rc);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_FSCACHE
 	/* populate tcon->resource_id */
@@ -898,13 +900,11 @@ struct inode *cifs_root_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		inode->i_uid = cifs_sb->mnt_uid;
 		inode->i_gid = cifs_sb->mnt_gid;
 	} else if (rc) {
-		kfree(full_path);
-		_FreeXid(xid);
 		iget_failed(inode);
-		return ERR_PTR(rc);
+		inode = ERR_PTR(rc);
 	}
 
-
+out:
 	kfree(full_path);
 	/* can not call macro FreeXid here since in a void func
 	 * TODO: This is no longer true